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December 30, 2015

snapchat and number of daily likes on facebook

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As of 2015, december 31st, Snapchat has over  5.3 million likes on Facebook .The chart represents snapchat’s users on Facebook  who have created a story on snapchat in a seven day period, which are aggregated across display news feeds.



the biggest investors and total funding rounds in snapchat

Snapchat is a photo  and video messaging app that allows users to take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to their intended recipients.Snapchat was created by  by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown when they were students at Stanford University. Among its investors are 1)Alibaba 2)Benchmark 3)Fidelity Investments 5)General 6)Catalyst Partners7) Glade Brook Capital 8) HDS Capital 9)Kingdom Holding 10)Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers along with  Coatue Management SV Angel and Tencent Holdings  

Geographic Composition of Snapchat Inc.’s Investors (Cumulative) | FindTheCompany


Snapchat as of 2015, December 31st has made 4 Acquisitions with a  Total Equity Funding $1.17B in 7 Rounds from 16 Investors.Snapchat serves transient display ads to over 100 million daily active users on its platform,  for 10 seconds ( for the time range users can keep their recordings) after which the next sets of online ads are shown . Every ad disappear within 10 seconds, followed up the other set.Snapchat has succeeded in disruption the traditional CPC and CPM online ad models.
"investors behin the snapchat brand"

The success of the new model can be explained by the fact that Snapchat charges as astounding $750,000 a day.The company has experienced high user-base growth this year and has been one of the most compelling Unicorns in the tech industry. The firm has managed to raise over $1 billion in equity funding to date, which has valued the company between $15-20 billion.

December 13, 2015

Youtube ,Snapchat replaces Facebook as US teens favorite social destination

A new study by Forrester Research found that just 65 percent of U.S. online users between the ages of 12 and 17 consider Facebook to be cool—ahead of Tumblr (62 percent), Pinterest (58 percent) and Google+ (55 percent), but lagging behind YouTube (80 percent), Snapchat (79 percent), Instagram (78 percent), Vine (72 percent), Twitter (69 percent) and WhatsApp (67 percent).

However, Forrester found that more than 60 percent of respondents use Facebook the most of all social networks, with more than one-third saying they are on it “all the time.”


June 7, 2015

Facebook and Whatsapp active users exceed 2.5billion and counting


"As of January 2015, there are 829 million active QQ accounts, with a peak of 176.4 million simultaneous online QQ users"



Latest Social Media usage and statistics around the world

The above chart shows the latest social media users across the world. Facebook  continues to top global social media usage with 1.5 billion active users and is miles ahead of its nearest competitor QQ.Chinese  based Tencent holdings owned QQ is ranked no 2 with  829 million active users  with a peak of 176.4 million simultaneous online .

Whatsap with over 700 million users is ranked 3rd while Facebook’s messenger  service with 500million + users is ranked 5th. Linkedin and Skype  ranks 7th and 8th with  347 and 300 million users .Google plus and Instagram takes the 9th  rank with  both standing at 300million users. Twitter ranks 12th with 288million active users

Facebook  with its messenger service along with whatsapp together exceed 2.5billion active users 

May 3, 2014

Snapchat steps up its war againts Whatsapp,Rolls out text and Video Chatting to its Mobile Vido App

Snapchat set to compete against whatsapp

In its biggest update yesterday, as it starts  to compete against the big boys of social web, by adding the ability  to add text messaging and  and video chatting to its photo and video sharing app.

The latest version of the app focuses on helping its users have conversations, rather than just one-off picture and video messages.Snapchat rolled out some big new features including the ability to send disappearing text-only messages back and forth, as well as the ability to video chat with other active app users.


The instant video chat feature is essentially a way to call someone without the phone ever ringing.  The instant video chat feature is essentially a way to call someone without the phone ever ringing. Snapchat’s new video calling isn’t a two way street. If a friend sees you on the app, they can video message you and their face will pop up on your screen without your permission. If it’s an inopportune time, the recipient can flick the video screen away with his or her finger.